Jonathan Levine Quotes
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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You look at a horse, and he's such a majestic, beautiful, powerful creature that you can't not be impressed. I love scraping the water off them when I wash them down because you go all round the contours, and its muscle and body, and you just think, 'Ooh, isn't this a magnificent creature.' You're touching it, and it's just solid, carved muscle.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
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If I get incensed about some injustice, you can't make me – I will not just going to sit at my desk, at my computer all the time. I – I might want to march out on that.
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Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
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I think there's always satisfaction that comes from digging in and telling a story and being on the front line and writing about it. I think there's a venue available if you look. Even print journalism is in good shape in areas.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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The reason I dislike talking about the creative process is that I do have a creative process that is a winner and it's a sure thing.
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When I was at high school, I used to pretend that I had work, and I would go and tell the head of school that I, like, really needed to leave, and I was really stressed out because I had work.
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I believed that our own public would keep this in mind even in this serious crisis, and stand firm if only we at the front continued to stand firm too.
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I let people down easy with inspiration.
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Sometimes when you really try to be earnest, everything disappears. If you really try to make a romantic movie, the first thing that goes out the window is the romance or real passion. It suddenly becomes cute-ville or cozy-ville. It's another world other than life.
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I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus.
